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20 Questions With Moby: On Trump, The 25 Year Anniversary of ‘Play’ & Fame: ‘I Experienced It Firsthand and It’s Stupid’


Moby talks 'Play' 25th anniversary and the movie he'd make about Donald Trump.

It spent 94 weeks on the Billboard 200, becoming a mainstream breakthrough moment for a genre then referred to as “electronica.” In 2000, a version of Play’s “South Side” reworked to feature Gwen Stefani reached No. The success of Play of course changed the producer’s life, making him a pop culture fixture and setting up a career that now encompasses 23 studio albums, with a 24th, Always Centered At Night, coming June 14 via Mute. Next week in Los Angeles, however, he will take part in two very low-key anniversary celebrations, live recordings of his Moby Pod podcast happening at the 200-person capacity at the Masonic Lodge at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

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